The Homegrown Vendor Blog

Local Line publishes every tier and every rate, which is more than most farm platforms manage. The question is whether you are the operation it was priced for. Here is the $830-a-year gap, the ACH mat

Barn2Door sells a farm commerce system with onboarding attached, and prices it that way: $119 a month plus a one-time $399 setup fee and no free trial. Here is the full first-year math against a $10 s

Both are deliberately simple, commission-free storefronts at nearly the same price. The difference is who they were simplified for: Big Cartel puts your product in a box, Homegrown hands it to someone

Squarespace Basic looks like the cheap plan until you notice the 2% online store transaction fee. Past about $500 a month in sales it costs more than simply paying for Core. Here is the full math, plu

On annual billing these two are $2.42 a month apart and charge identical card processing, so price is a dead end. What differs is the job each one takes off your plate: Bake.Shop owns the menu and inv

The entry-tier card rates are identical, so the whole cost difference is the subscription: $19 a month, or $228 a year. What that buys is a platform built to sell anything anywhere. Here is an honest

Square's free plan is free to have, not free to use: it charges 3.3% plus 30 cents online against 2.9% on its paid plans. That 0.4% is the price. Here is exactly where the break-even sits against a $1

Etsy has no subscription, so it looks free until you count. On a $25 order it takes about $2.83, and up to $6.58 if Offsite Ads attributed the sale. Here is the full stack on both, the break-even, and

The subscriptions are twelve cents apart across a year. The products are not remotely the same thing. Bakesy quotes custom work and sends invoices. Homegrown is a storefront a customer can buy from wi